Bonkleberry

I was on a Manticore TF PUG once where the whole team wanted to skip what we could, but the only team members with stealth were me and a Stalker and neither of us had Assemble the Team yet. Several missions were just the Stalker and me duoing final rooms while the rest of the team sat at the door. One of the missions bugged and we all had to disband anyway.

k I never claimed they could not solo. I am merely stating a fact that Necromancy/Dark Miasma is not a very durable build combination. The best route for slotting, i.e. most efficient, is to tackle content more friendly to their build to get resources first.

I do NOT want a taunt on my Bruiser. 1) That would instantly kill any Tankermind build that uses Thugs as a primary, as the idea of a Tankermind is to direct all damage to the Mastermind and split it with bodyguard mode. 2) The Bruiser would interfere with tanking. If a party tank is trying to reposition enemies, then the Bruiser could taunt off the tank and cause team friction. If the tank in your party is good, then having your Bruiser taunt enemies and take unnecessary damage themselves would only lower the Mastermind's contributions to fight as they would possibly need to constantly resummon or heal the Bruiser.

I think the best route for slotting for you is to exemplar down and run low level content until you get enough money for slotting set enhancements and you get enough threads for incarnate powers and level shifts. Your primary/secondary combination of Necromancy/Dark Miasma is not a very durable combination for solo play or +4/8 play.

I just wanted to answer your first question. Pretty much all Mastermind primaries except Thugs and Ninjas can heal themselves. The best primary for self healing pets, in my opinion, is Necromancy, because all of the pets get a Life Drain/Siphon Life power with the final pet upgrade that they spam as a part of their normal DPS rotation. I suppose that does not fit with your Robotic theme, though. Ho hum.

I took the time to grind over 200 candy canes tonight and I have at least 10 Prismatic Aether, yet the Elf Vendor in Pocket D will not let me create the Snow Beast Costume. I have tried everything I can think of. I deleted my Temp powers. I turned off all toggles. I logged out and logged back in a couple times. I even went and bought the Costume Accolade for 50 Prismatic Aether and a Rikti costume just to make sure costumes work on this character, and you can see in the screen shot I attached that I do not already have the costume. Even though influence is not listed as necessary, I have millions of influence. I tried asking help chat, and nobody knew. I could not get in touch with a GM. I did a web and forums search and found nothing. I am at a complete loss as to why I cannot create this Prestige Power. UPDATE: I logged out for a bit to make this post, and logged back in to give things another try. Now the Snow Beast costume does not show up in the list to buy anymore. *GAH*

I already read that, thanks. It makes no mention of what happened with the macro and, of course, does not take into account what the new norm is in the community. I just says what changed.

Yeah, that is what changed. You used to be able to use the macro without standing near a portal. Ho hum. It is what it is.

I am playing on Excelsior. Cosmic Transport was the Macro I used before. It was not working when I tried it. Did they change how it works?

Hello, it has been almost a year since I last played. I can usually pick up on new stuff quite fast, but I am slightly confused on the changes to travel and zone teleportation. When I last played, there was this macro that everyone used that teleported you to a special base, filled with portals and other useful stuff, from anywhere in the world. Between that macro and Ouroboros, you could get anywhere in the game pretty fast. It seems, though, this macro no longer works. When I click it, it says I need to be near a Super Group portal. I tried reading patch notes and stuff and even checked for guides on how people get around now, but all I could find was this thing on Long Range Teleport being an accolade now. So, I am asking anybody on the forums, how do people get around these days? Does everyone just use that long range teleport option? Do people still use the macro, but now I just need to travel to a Super Group Portal? Was there some sort of functionality added to the UI I have not noticed yet? I am leveling a new Controller and I would like to know this information before I attempt a Task Force. Nobody wants to be that person who takes forever to travel to the next mission. Thank you,

I am not sure if this has been covered yet, but only the ally heal, rez, healing buff are really of any use in the medicine pool powerset. Since you already have access to O2 Boost, the Heal Other is a pointless pick. I have never seen anybody pick the Injection for self use and fhe debuff is meh. The heal self is NOT useful during combat. It has something like a 4 second cast time and can be interrupted. In the heat of the moment, if you spam the power to get it to go off, you will just interupt yourself several times and waste endurance (the endurance cost goes off when you hit the power, whether it healed or not). I suppose some teams will be happy for the rez ability, but rezes are often skipped powers in general. In the end, you would need essentially two pointless power picks to get the small endurance from the last power.

As others have pointed out, your screen shot is not much help. For all we know, you were missing some type of buff when the hit happened, but you had the buff on in your screen shot.

You pretty much picked the FOTM builds from when the game was still live before IOs.

Yay for necro threads! But yeah, the game was not challanging at all back then or boring. Sure, compared to the games we have now, it seems like it would have been a pain, but the only MMO competitors back then were like WoW, Lineage, and Everquest--Guildwars came a bit later. Those games sucked at early levels as well. I mean, in Lineage you had to rest after every battle and WoW mounts were impossible to buy until max level without a friend's help, so running everywhere was half the game. All of the games sucked together, though, so the slog seemed normal. It was just a matter of fact for MMOs back then that characters at low levels were AWFUL until you reached a certain turning point were they became bearable. If you stuck with a character that long, that was a sign you enjoyed playing it enough that maybe you should take it to max level. There was also no option to just go play another game, because the other games were the same.

I did not say they were ignornat, I said they were contributing to ignorance. I called them simpleminded, to be specific. And this arguement that "there is a time and place" to discuss politics is just a veiled attempt to shut people up. Politics is not the same as sexy talk, nor is it the same as illegal topics, drugs, violence, or any other thing that can lead to the musfortune of others. So, no, I disagree that "there is a time and place" to discuss politics. When people want to talk about it, that is the time and place.

I generally enjoy task forces. I will often join them, even if I do not need them for any reason.

Interesting. I never realized Necro pets resisted Psionic. I was thinking of trying a /Fire Mastermind, but was not sure which primary to pair it with. Your information inspires me.

For me, I cannot handle large Rularuu spawns on my Mastermind. They rip through my pets like nothing. I can toil through the battle and win, but it is not worth it. I usually need to reduce the spawn size down from 8 until about 6 for those. Otherwise, I need to be wary of Sorrow Bosses and Lieutenants as well. If there are too many in the spwan, I cannot Tankermind and set my Poison Trap without faceplanting. Usually a minion level pet or two will die as well.

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Yes. Only a simpleminded person would be bothered by others discussing a topic about public matters in a public channel.

How are you getting 60% Psionic res? Is that the default undead resistance to Psionic? Anyway, I do not know how you do it. I have teamed with Sonics or Fire before and my pets go squish just as often as if the Sonics or Fire were not there. In other words, it was the +defense keeping them alive and the res did not matter. EDIT: I mean, I even see my pets sometimes die fast through the Incarnate +res barrier.

My biggest pet peeve is people who get mad at people for talking politics. I get that you are simpleminded and cannot tolerate complicated or dramatic subjects, but politics is a part of life, just like morality and logic. People who discourage others from talking about important things, I feel, are responsible for the epidemic ignorance that is going on in the world today.

1. No,. 2. If you mean set bonuses, no. If you are referring to the pet aura Def/Res IOs, then yes. All of the "pet aura" IOs, no matter where they are slotted, give the player a PBAOE effect that buffs all pets in range. You do not even need to use the power they are slotted in. On my Mastermind, I use Gang War as an IO mule for slotting four of the Aura IOs. 3. Yes. Right-click your pet in the pet window and there is an option to see their stats. 4. I would not know. Everyone has their opinions on how to play the class. I am the type of person who prefers to find their own way, so I never tired too look too hard for a good guide. But I can provide a few good tips below: 1. Defensive Stance is your friend. At higher levels and with certain personal defenses, it can turn you into a so-called Tankermind. You cannot hold aggro, but it can be difficult for enemies to kill you. Defensive stance also works the best, in my opinion, for controlling your pets so they do not run around everywhere. 2. You need to buff your pets' defense to soft cap, somehow. Without good defenses, your pets will die easily and often. Even with jacked up resistances, minions die within like three or four hits. Thugs and Robots are very easy to get to Defense cap without a Secondary supporting powerset. The rest of the Primaries need defense from your secondary somehow. Although, I hear that Demons are very survivable without defenses from your secondary.

Yes, thus the lowered numbers I was getting. Both ATs were essentially doing 1 less point of damage than they should have done.

Yeah, I went out and tested just to be sure. Corruptor tooltip says Flares is 16 damage at level 1. It was doing 7 against a level 1 Hellion Minion. Blaster tooltip says 10 and it was doing 9. You learn something new every day.